Animated Gifs for Tokens and Animated Backgrounds

Animate all the things!  I would love to be able to use an animated gif for my tokens and my personal avatar. Additionally, I would love to be able to use some of these animated maps people are making! Please make this happen!

Yeah, this would be great. I plan to have a lava map in a future game, and if I could have the background lava bubbling away, like in this GIF ( <a href="https://media.giphy.com/media/PhIsv6b9a9Jug/giphy.gif" rel="nofollow">https://media.giphy.com/media/PhIsv6b9a9Jug/giphy.gif</a> ) that would be neato. Hmmm, GIFs are poorly optimised (ie none), what about support for short/small mp4 files? Perhaps even roll20 could convert an uploaded GIF to mp4 on the fly? <a href="https://rigor.com/blog/2015/12/optimizing-animated" rel="nofollow">https://rigor.com/blog/2015/12/optimizing-animated</a>... I imagine a looped animation of a small character token or a background wouldnt be too large in file size.

I'm an animator and a DM. I'd love to be able to make my own little gifs of tokens. Gifs have transparency and operate in a similar way to PNGs, so I wonder if this would be possible all the time! I'd love to make some animated tokens for the Marketplace too.

Gifs technically have transparency, but it's it's a 1-bit alpha channel. I don't think they'd be good for any kind of smooth implementation. What you would want in this case are .webm's -- they're optimized, flexible, and have a fully functioning alpha channel. And yes, there are plenty of methods for being able to upload a GIF or other video file and running an automated conversion process. I think this would be a really great feature to have, but I'm sure there would be a lot of wrinkles regarding execution and accounting for every use case.

This is now live . I'm closing this thread to refund your votes!